Kids' Stuff
Jonathan Austin
ALL DAY
Jonathan Austin's magic cuts across all lines and that's no illusion. His unmistakable performances combine the sensational and the subtle, which leaves adults and children, young and old, families and singles thoroughly staggered and astonished, and helplessly laughing from his audience interaction.
Barefoot Puppets Puppet Show
1:00pm & 4:00pm : Kids Area
Join in the fun as Barefoot Puppet Theatre presents The Little Bread Hen. Inspired by the classic tale of The Little Red Hen, this puppet show uncovers the truth behind some of the glaring plot holes in the original version. (C’mon…How does a chicken learn to bake bread and why, exactly, won’t the other animals help?)
Journey with us to a small European Bakery as we cook up the answers to those questions and more in this hilarious retelling! Barefoot Puppet Theatre’s original puppets, innovative staging and surprise ending are seasoned with a liberal dash of Dr. Seuss, Brementown Musicians and The Fox and The Hen in this 45-minute performance for family audiences.
Happy Lucky Combo
All Day Until 4:30pm
The Happy Lucky Combo performs music inspired by Tango, Zydeco, Klezmer, Fado, and always the Blues. Wherever they play they create an atmosphere of little cafes and carnivals, cabarets and circuses.
The band consists of Pippin Barnet, percussion, Barry Bless, accordion, Nicholas Lewis, clarinet, and Dave Yohe, bass.
Richmond Indigenous Gourd Orchestra
4:15pm : Main Stage
The Richmond Indigenous Gourd Orchestra resides in Richmond, Virginia, where members grow gourds, make instruments with gourds and create music. A band of musicians with dirt under their fingernails--they put the "cult" back into culture, and "culture" back into agriculture.
Dressed in custom made costumes and headgear, they give gardening tips, delve into gourd lore, brag about their vast, if questionable, ethnomusicological knowledge, and generally try to explain themselves. But mostly they play "gourdeous " music.
"I planted a seed and grew an orchestra!" proclaims Arthur " Professor of Gourdology" Stephens.
The Orchestra performs at schools, galleries, museums, garden clubs, weddings, parties and festivals. Recently they created, for a film festival, an original score that is performed live with the 1922 silent documentary " Nanook of the North ". In schools they teach workshops and give lecture demonstrations. Once a year they take a pilgrimage to the worlds biggest gourd show, in Mt. Giliad Ohio, where they perform for the crowning of the Gourd Queen.
"We're out standing in our field " says Arthur. And that's probably where you'll find them.
The Richmond Indigenous Gourd Orchestra’s current members are Pippin Barnett, Barry Bless, Christopher Hibben, John Ramsey, and Arthur Stephens.
